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Speaking at the United Nations High-Level Conference on Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies, Special Secretary, Internal Security, Home Ministry, Rina Mitra warned that no country can be considered safe from terrorist acts.
New Delhi: India has reported to the United Nations that it has lived with the curse of terrorism inflicted from across borders for decades while its counter-terror efforts go in vain without the required global support who instead “hide” and protect the accused persons.
Speaking at the United Nations High-Level Conference on Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies on Friday, Special Secretary, Internal Security, Home Ministry, Rina Mitra warned that no country can be considered safe from terrorist acts.
Mitra made a strong pitch for India’s efforts with counter-terrorism operations and said that terrorist entities today have links and operate across borders building networks, raising funds in various ways, including internationally, propagating ideologies of hate, recruiting from foreign lands, sourcing arms and weapons from distant providers and smugglers and exploiting modern communication technologies that dissolve distances.
"They are able to select targets of their choosing in countries of their choosing, cross borders often with help from state agencies and inflict terror on innocent peoples. They are able to do this because nation states still struggle to collaborate with their partners and neighbours on countering activities of terror networks, often due to narrow political considerations," she said.
"Worse, there are well known instances of some states using terror entities for their political ends, providing them with safe havens and other support," she added. Mitra told the conference that India has had to face the scourge of terrorism, mostly originating outside its borders, increasingly over the last two decades, adding that the country's counter-terrorism agencies have developed considerable expertise in preventing such attacks and bringing their perpetrators to justice.
"Many of our efforts continue to be thwarted due to lack of international collaboration in respect of exchange of information and evidence or of extradition of the accused persons who are hiding outside our territory," she said.
The UN had convened its first-ever High-Level Conference on Counter-Terrorism. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on nations to fight terrorism together with methods that do not compromise the rule of law and human rights.
The UN chief said, "We should engage with all who can help us achieve our goals, including empowering young people through education, jobs and training, and engaging women and all of civil society in the fight against terrorism."
Mitra said terrorism can be effectively tackled only if there is genuine collaboration among nations. While over the past seven decades, some international treaties have elicited international collaboration on specific kinds of terrorist threats, a more comprehensive approach, as embodied in the proposed Convention on Countering International Terrorism "is required in tackling the contemporary form of terrorism that is evolving all the time continues to elude us".
Referring to the sanctions committee in the Security Council, Mitra said some practical steps to counter terrorism have been mandated by the council through establishment of specific sanctions committees but these have had limited success. "Such efforts have also run into political difficulties due to differing strategic considerations of major powers," she said, adding that the Global Counter Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) being discussed by the UN General Assembly over the last decade has also had limited practical impact.
Mitra expressed hope that the UN Conference of counter-terrorism experts and practitioners will start a serious exchange of practical ideas and push for a more coordinated approach to counter terrorism at a global level.
"We hope that this will also provide concrete suggestions for international collaboration. This will also help us discuss some of the emerging threats and challenges posed by international terrorism," she said.
Mitra said India stands ready to work with partners to strengthen practical aspects relating to counter-terrorism efforts, including exchange of timely and actionable intelligence, prevention of misuse of modern communication technologies and social media platforms, monitoring illicit financial flows and sharing of information relating to movement of passengers.
https://www.news18.com/news/india/i...eighbours-in-taking-on-terrorism-1796507.html
India hints at Pakistan role in Afghanistan terror at United Nations
In a veiled reference to Pakistan, India has said the problem of terrorism in Afghanistan is not a local one and attacks inside the country are launched from safe havens in its neighbourhood that has sheltered Taliban leaders and supported the “dark agendas” of terror outfits like the LeT and JeM.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin during a debate at the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan said yesterday that the spring offensive from the Taliban had taken many lives despite the much-appreciated peace offer from the Afghan Government.
“Such offensives are planned and launched from safe havens in the neighbourhood of Afghanistan,” he said.
While not naming Pakistan, Akbaruddin said those supporting the terrorists targeting Afghanistan have not been deterred.
“Notwithstanding the efforts made by the international community, there are still those who provide sanctuaries to support the dark agendas of terrorist organizations like the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.
“The same safe havens that sheltered Mullah Omar also sheltered Osama bin Laden. Lest we forget, the terrorism problem in Afghanistan is not a local one,” he said.
Akbaruddin asserted that it should not take a “catastrophe” again to remind the international community that Afghanistan requires strong and steady international support in elimination of what is a threat to global peace and security.
He noted that the focus of the international community in Afghanistan has been unremitting from the start of this year.
Akbaruddin, however, added that “sadly”, the markers of progress on fundamental concerns about the situation strike a sombre note -“whether it is in terms of the suffering of the ordinary people of Afghanistan, the senseless orgy of heinous killings by terrorists, or the displacement of a conflict-weary people.”
Akbaruddin voiced concern over the Taliban’s involvement in virtually all aspects of the opium trade, suggesting that it’s not a mere political or terrorism problem but one of the organised crimes. He underscored the need for the Council to tackle linkages between extremism, terrorism, drug production and illegal exploitation of natural resources of Afghanistan.
“It is time that this Council looks at options to better utilise the range of tools available to it to deal with these trans-national networks of drugs, terrorism and crime,” he said.
He highlighted India’s support as a development partner of Afghanistan in areas of connectivity, improving trade and investment relations, noting the significant developments in recent months on connectivity.
He cited the example of the Chabahar port and as well as the India-Afghanistan Air Freight Corridor, which has gained momentum in the first year of its operation.
Cargo flights between Kabul, Kandahar, New Delhi and Mumbai have so far carried over 2,000 tonnes of exports from Afghanistan to India worth over tens of millions of dollars.
“Encouraged by this, we have plans to expand the air freight corridor network to various other cities in Afghanistan and India,” he said.
Akbaruddin also lauded the rise of Afghanistan’s cricket team, qualifying for the next Cricket World Cup and making their debut as a test cricket playing nation earlier this month against India. He expressed optimism over the prospect of India’s national cricket team playing on the Afghan soil in the future.
New Delhi: India has reported to the United Nations that it has lived with the curse of terrorism inflicted from across borders for decades while its counter-terror efforts go in vain without the required global support who instead “hide” and protect the accused persons.
Speaking at the United Nations High-Level Conference on Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies on Friday, Special Secretary, Internal Security, Home Ministry, Rina Mitra warned that no country can be considered safe from terrorist acts.
Mitra made a strong pitch for India’s efforts with counter-terrorism operations and said that terrorist entities today have links and operate across borders building networks, raising funds in various ways, including internationally, propagating ideologies of hate, recruiting from foreign lands, sourcing arms and weapons from distant providers and smugglers and exploiting modern communication technologies that dissolve distances.
"They are able to select targets of their choosing in countries of their choosing, cross borders often with help from state agencies and inflict terror on innocent peoples. They are able to do this because nation states still struggle to collaborate with their partners and neighbours on countering activities of terror networks, often due to narrow political considerations," she said.
"Worse, there are well known instances of some states using terror entities for their political ends, providing them with safe havens and other support," she added. Mitra told the conference that India has had to face the scourge of terrorism, mostly originating outside its borders, increasingly over the last two decades, adding that the country's counter-terrorism agencies have developed considerable expertise in preventing such attacks and bringing their perpetrators to justice.
"Many of our efforts continue to be thwarted due to lack of international collaboration in respect of exchange of information and evidence or of extradition of the accused persons who are hiding outside our territory," she said.
The UN had convened its first-ever High-Level Conference on Counter-Terrorism. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on nations to fight terrorism together with methods that do not compromise the rule of law and human rights.
The UN chief said, "We should engage with all who can help us achieve our goals, including empowering young people through education, jobs and training, and engaging women and all of civil society in the fight against terrorism."
Mitra said terrorism can be effectively tackled only if there is genuine collaboration among nations. While over the past seven decades, some international treaties have elicited international collaboration on specific kinds of terrorist threats, a more comprehensive approach, as embodied in the proposed Convention on Countering International Terrorism "is required in tackling the contemporary form of terrorism that is evolving all the time continues to elude us".
Referring to the sanctions committee in the Security Council, Mitra said some practical steps to counter terrorism have been mandated by the council through establishment of specific sanctions committees but these have had limited success. "Such efforts have also run into political difficulties due to differing strategic considerations of major powers," she said, adding that the Global Counter Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) being discussed by the UN General Assembly over the last decade has also had limited practical impact.
Mitra expressed hope that the UN Conference of counter-terrorism experts and practitioners will start a serious exchange of practical ideas and push for a more coordinated approach to counter terrorism at a global level.
"We hope that this will also provide concrete suggestions for international collaboration. This will also help us discuss some of the emerging threats and challenges posed by international terrorism," she said.
Mitra said India stands ready to work with partners to strengthen practical aspects relating to counter-terrorism efforts, including exchange of timely and actionable intelligence, prevention of misuse of modern communication technologies and social media platforms, monitoring illicit financial flows and sharing of information relating to movement of passengers.
https://www.news18.com/news/india/i...eighbours-in-taking-on-terrorism-1796507.html
India hints at Pakistan role in Afghanistan terror at United Nations
In a veiled reference to Pakistan, India has said the problem of terrorism in Afghanistan is not a local one and attacks inside the country are launched from safe havens in its neighbourhood that has sheltered Taliban leaders and supported the “dark agendas” of terror outfits like the LeT and JeM.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin during a debate at the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan said yesterday that the spring offensive from the Taliban had taken many lives despite the much-appreciated peace offer from the Afghan Government.
“Such offensives are planned and launched from safe havens in the neighbourhood of Afghanistan,” he said.
While not naming Pakistan, Akbaruddin said those supporting the terrorists targeting Afghanistan have not been deterred.
“Notwithstanding the efforts made by the international community, there are still those who provide sanctuaries to support the dark agendas of terrorist organizations like the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.
“The same safe havens that sheltered Mullah Omar also sheltered Osama bin Laden. Lest we forget, the terrorism problem in Afghanistan is not a local one,” he said.
Akbaruddin asserted that it should not take a “catastrophe” again to remind the international community that Afghanistan requires strong and steady international support in elimination of what is a threat to global peace and security.
He noted that the focus of the international community in Afghanistan has been unremitting from the start of this year.
Akbaruddin, however, added that “sadly”, the markers of progress on fundamental concerns about the situation strike a sombre note -“whether it is in terms of the suffering of the ordinary people of Afghanistan, the senseless orgy of heinous killings by terrorists, or the displacement of a conflict-weary people.”
Akbaruddin voiced concern over the Taliban’s involvement in virtually all aspects of the opium trade, suggesting that it’s not a mere political or terrorism problem but one of the organised crimes. He underscored the need for the Council to tackle linkages between extremism, terrorism, drug production and illegal exploitation of natural resources of Afghanistan.
“It is time that this Council looks at options to better utilise the range of tools available to it to deal with these trans-national networks of drugs, terrorism and crime,” he said.
He highlighted India’s support as a development partner of Afghanistan in areas of connectivity, improving trade and investment relations, noting the significant developments in recent months on connectivity.
He cited the example of the Chabahar port and as well as the India-Afghanistan Air Freight Corridor, which has gained momentum in the first year of its operation.
Cargo flights between Kabul, Kandahar, New Delhi and Mumbai have so far carried over 2,000 tonnes of exports from Afghanistan to India worth over tens of millions of dollars.
“Encouraged by this, we have plans to expand the air freight corridor network to various other cities in Afghanistan and India,” he said.
Akbaruddin also lauded the rise of Afghanistan’s cricket team, qualifying for the next Cricket World Cup and making their debut as a test cricket playing nation earlier this month against India. He expressed optimism over the prospect of India’s national cricket team playing on the Afghan soil in the future.
